The '76 - doing it right this time, Finishing the interior Options

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In 2009 I bought this '76 from The LeMay Museum. It had been donated to the museum by one of their members. They in turn decided to sell it and use the proceeds towards other projects they had in their inventory. Google them and you'll see it would not have been a good fit.
Upon delivery I discovered there were areas where rust had staked it's claim. The sail panels had, as I now know, the usual rust; the battery tray and the area immediately behind it plus a small area on top of the long beneath; and finally a few spots along the front rain channel.
To say I was distraught would be an understatement. Thirteen years and 2 more 914's later I know it was a good deal. Did I mention I paid $1600 for it delivered. The longs were solid as was the rest of the car. I removed the wiring mess for the car alarm & CB radio then reconnected all the wires to their original terminals. Next I replaced the Fuel Pump relay, added gas. After a turn of the key it coughed, farted and started. That's pretty much the Reader's Digest version but little more was done than that.
I hadn't worked on any cars since I was a teen and none of those needed rust repair. However, after building an airplane years earlier, I had some experience with aluminum and fiberglass. Do you see where this is going?
I thought it time that I go back and do a proper repair job on the old girl. Don't get me wrong. I thought that the aluminum angle patch pieces on the rain channel, the fiberglass in the Hell Hole and Bondo on the sail panels was "good enough"! Looking back, I didn't know Shit from Apple Butter.
It has remained as such but Since both of my Subaru conversions are basically finished, sans a paint job on the '73, I decided to go back and correct my "Get're done" repairs. I bought the rail repair pieces from 914rubber which in turn gave me an excuse to buy a metal shrinker/stretcher.
Bore yourself if you will, as there are more interesting and detailed metal restorations going on here, but I thought I'd better post these improvements for the next owner.

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2 of 4 and I just noticed I need to resize my camera so bear with me. The next update will have more pics per post.

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It's been a few weeks since I got anything accomplished. The Heat Wave was brutal and finally passed. Then came the rains from the remnants of the Hurricane. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) Anyway, I changed plans and removed the paint from both sides of the trunk lids. I had convinced myself that the inside of the lids didn't need paint since the car basically hadn't been outside in years. Better minds prevailed and now that it's done I'm glad that I did it. It took about 3 days to strip sand and prep the inside of the front & rear lids plus the spare tire rim. I hope to begin shooting some primer this week, fingers crossed.

Four hours to remove 4 layers of paint/primer, grind/sand away "Fix-a-Flat" residue, and cut away the old steel belted tire. Awaiting primer.



Here are the lids in no particular order. They're really nice lids and it's apparent with the paint removed. I've already been asked by a couple of neighbor's what I used to remove the paint. I told them ever tool that I own! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)